Handle-making machine.



No. 783,113. PATENTED FEB. 21, '1905.

' D. L. EUSTIGE.

HANDLE MAKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 28.1903.

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HANDLE MAKING MACHINE APPLICATION FILED JULY 28,1903.

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Patented February 21, 1905.

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DANIEL L. EUSTICE, OF GALENA, ILLINOIS.

HANDLE-MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,113, dated February 21, 1905. Application filed July 28, 1903. Serial No. 167.283.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LDANIEL L. EUsTIoE, a citizen of the United States. residing in the city of Galena,in the county of J Daviess and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Handles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide inexpensive and convenient means for the manufacture of handles or bails for packages, pails, buckets, cans, and the like whereby they may be produced rapidly and at a small cost.

It consists in a number of dies of peculiar construction and means for operating the dies conjointly to complete the construction of the bail at one operation of the machine.

The manner in which it is accomplished will be fully developed in the following specification when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying the same and forming a part hereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view taken from the forward end. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of part of the driving mechanism. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the head for bending the handle with the means for holding the wire. Fig. 1 is a block which contains the dies for forming the hooks of the handle, Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the dies in Fig. 1 removed. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a device for holding the wire while it is in the process of being bent and also the front of the frame with recess. Fig. 7 shows the under side of the cams and frame in which one of them rotates. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the shaft and its connection with the feed. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the cutter for severing the wire, together with the attachment for operating the same. Fig. 10 is a side view of the knife for severing the wire. Fig. 11 is a perspective view of the finished product. Fig. 12 shows a detail sectional view of the exact construction of the secondary dies which form the ends of the bail.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each of the figures.

Referring to the drawings, 2 designates the main frame, which consist in a head-plate 3 with two horizontal side bars 1, within which the machinery hereinafter to be described is mainly located. This frame rests upon atable or supporting-legs. (Not shown.) The forward end of the frame is cut away, forminga half-circular recess 4:, within which is a slight horizontal groove 5, extending entirely around the curve and formingthe female die for bending the body of the handle. Also in the said recess 4 is a recess '7 for the purpose presently to appear. The head 6 of the die is curved on its front side at 8 into the shape of the recess 4, into which it is adapted to enter. Around the middle of the die 6 at the end 8 is a groove 10, in which the wire to be bent is guided. This forms part of the female die. In order to grasp and hold the wire in the groove 10 while it is severed and bent, there is cut in the head 6 a recess, in which is located a shaft 12. (See Fig. 3.) At the top and bottom of the rod 12 is attached a bevel-plate 14. In the curved end 8 of the head 6 is a groove or curved recess 15, into which is inserted two tubes 16, each having a bevel end 18 and at their contiguous edges lips 20, and between the lips is a spring 22. By means of this construction when the wire is forced along in the groove 10 the beveled plates 14 are turned by means hereinafter described along on the top of the beveled end 18 of the tube 16 and also upon the bottom 18 of the lower tube, and this forces the tubes toward each other and the lips 20 firmly upon the wire, holding it while it is severed and bent.

In the rear of the die 6 is an iron block 25, having in its front side two dies 26 (shown in Figs. 4: and 5) for forming the hooks H of the handle I. These dies consist of a bar of steel 28, in which is a cup-shaped socket or opening 29, and a channel 30 across the end of the bar 28 through the socket. Beneath the bar 28 is pivoted an arm 32 by a pivot-pin 3A. This part of the, die is provided with an arm 35, which fills the channel 30. In the rear of the arm 32 is a spring 36, which forces into the channel 30 the arm 35 and retains it there- 1n. provided rods 38 and 40. The rods 38 are rigidly secured in the block 25 and enter the frame 3, where they slide freely within. The

In order to guide the block 25, there arerods 40 are secured to a rectangular supplemental frame 46 and extend loosely through the block 25 and are rigidly secured in the head 6. In this manner when the frame 46 is moved forward it moves the head 6 by its connection with the rods 40. For the purpose of reciprocating the block 25 to the rear of the block is pivoted an arm 42. This arm extends to the rear and is pivoted to a pin 43, fixed in one side of a peculiarly-shaped plate or cam 44. (Shown in Figs. 2 and 7.) This plate or cam 44 is heart-shaped with rounded corners and all lines drawn through the oenter'or all diameters are of equal length and is adapted to be rotated in a groove 45, located in the frame 46. To the under side of the cam 44, near one edge, is another cam, 48, which is fastened to the cam 44 and adapted to rotate with the cam 44. Cam 48 is somewhat of circular shape and provided with a projection or lug 49. The use of this cam will presently appear.

Around the pin 43 over the arm 42 is pivoted an arm 50, which extends forward and is attached to a shaft 12 in the rear of the head 6, and by means of this arm 50 the bevelplates 14 are turned upon the bevel ends l8v of the tubes 16 and force the tubes toward each other and the lips 20 in engagement with the handle.

Along on the inner side of the frame 2 extends a rod 55, to the forward end of which is pivoted an arm of the operating-knife 41 for severing the wire as it is fed in. This knife 41 is pivoted to the side of the head-plate 3 by a pivot-pin 47 passing through a washer 51 and into the head-plate. The knife 41 is recessed out at A to provide a cutting edge which, with the face .of the head-plate 3, forms the cutter or shears for severing the wire D as it is forced through a hole B in the head-plate 3. To the rod 55 is rigidlyiattached an arm 56, provided on its outer edge with a circular plate .or roller 57, adapted to engage the lug 49 of the cam 48, and when the cam is rotated it forces back the arm 56 and with it the rod 55, which partly rotates.

the knife 41 sufficiently to sever the wire D. The rod 55 is returned to its normal position by a spring Gr upon the rod 55. Beneath the frame is located a driving-pulley 58, which is belted by a belt 59 to the power and drives the machine. This pulley 58 is fixed upon a shaft 60,- provided with a beveled gear 62 at its outer end. In the base of a frame is fixed a shaft 64, upon which is. secured a beveled gear 65, adapted to connect with the gear 62, and to the lower end of the shaft 64 is attached a plate 66, provided with an arm 67. In the outer end of the arm 67 is pivoted a joint-arm 68, to which is attached a rod 69. The rod 69 is connected to the feed (not shown) located As the device by which under the arm 63. the wire D is fed through the hole B in the and as any well-known feeding device may be used with my machine, the feeding device herein used is not shown or described. Upon the top of the shaft 64 are rigidly fixed cams 48 and 44, and whenever the shaft 64 is rotated by the engagement of the gear 62 with the gear the cam 44 is rotated in the groove 45 of the frame 46 and reciprocates said frame, and as the head 6 is connected to the frame 46 by the rods 40, and as the block 25 is connected to the cam 44 by the arm 42, whenever the frame 46 is reciprocated by the cam 44 the block 25 and the head 6 will both be reciprocated, but not exactly together, as the head will first be advanced into the recess 4, and immediately thereafter the block 25 will follow, and on the return the block 25 will first commence to return and will be followed by bring the arm 74 against the wire D and hold it in the groove as it is fed in and cut off. In order that the arm 74 shall not be turned too far by the spring 75, there is provided a pin 78, set in the rod, and as the rod is rotated the pin comes in contact with the frame 3 and prevents any further turning of the rod or movements of the arm, and it remains in this position against the wire till the wire has been grasped by the lips 20.

The manner of operating my device is substantially as follows: Power is applied to the pulley 58, which rotates the gear 62 at the end of the shaft 60 and rotates the gear 65, which rotates the shaft 64, and as the cams 44 and 48 are secured to the top of the shaft 64 they will be rotated as the shaft 64 is rotated, and this rotation turns the plate 66 and forces around thearm 67. This movement of the arm 67 reciprocates the rod 69 and draws in the wire, forcing it through the frame 2 and along in front of the head 6 in the groove 10 between the lips 20 and to the opposite inner side of the head-plate 3 and of just the length of wire D necessary to form a handle. When the wire has reached this position, the cam 44 has been sufficiently turned to turn the arm 50, and since the arm 50 is rigidly attached to the shaft .12 and as the beveled plates 14 are rigidly fixed on the shaft 12 the arm 50 will turn the plates 14 upon the ends of the tubes 16 and force the tubes toward each other and the lips 20 upon the wire, thus holding the wire rigid between the lips 20. At'this time the cam 48 has been turned sufficiently to force out the arm 56 by the engagement of the lug 49 With the roller head-plate 3 forms no part of my invention 1 57, which draws back the rod 55, and as it is drawn back it operates the knife 41 to sever the wire D. At the time when the wire is severed the cam 44 has commenced to be rotated in the groove 45 in the frame 46, which forces the frame forward, and as the rods 40 are rigidly fixed in the frame 46 and in the head 6(loosely passing through the block 25) they will force the head 6 into the recess 4, bringing the lips 20 into the recess 7, With the wire still rigidly held between the lips 20 and in the dies 10 and 5, thus bending the wire to the desired curve. Just as the head 6 has started to enter the recess 4 the arm 42 has commenced to force forward the block 25 and the rods 38 into the head-plate 3, and as the head reaches the end of the recess and has bent the wire the block will have been forced forward so nearly to the head that the ends of the wire will enter the sockets 29, and a further advance of the block to the rear of the head will force the ends of the wire around back of the arm or bar 32, thus forming the hooks H of the handle. The handle, including the hooks, has now been formed complete and the head 6 is in the end of the recess 4 and the block 25 is against the head 6. The. continued rotation of the cam 44 in the frame will draw back the head 6 and the block 25, and as the block is drawn back the books of the handle will pull back and over the arm 32, and as the arm is pulled outward the hooks will be released from their engagement with the arm and at the same time the body of the wire will be released from the lips 20 and the completed handle will drop beneath the machine. Thus it will be seen that at each revolution of the cam 44 a handle will be cut off from the roll or spool of wire and completely finished.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a machine of the character described, a frame, a die for bending the body of the handle, a head, a die in the head, a block set in the rear of the head and independent thereof and provided with dies, means for reciprocating the block to bring the dies in the block into engagement with the ends of the wire to form the hooks, and means for operating the head to form the body of the handle.

2. In a machine of the character described, a frame provided with a part of a female die, a head provided with .a part of a female die adapted to engage the part of the die in the frame for bending the body of the handle, means for holding the handle in the head, and means for operating the head to engage the die in the head with the die in the frame.

3. In a machine of the character described, a frame, a die in the frame, a head, a die in the head adapted to operate with the die in the frame to form the body of the handle, means for reciprocating the head, a block set in the rear of the head and independent thereof and provided with dies for forming the hooks,

means for reciprocating the block to engage the ends of the wire with the dies in the block, and means for releasing the hooks from the dies in the block after they are formed.

4. The combination of a frame, a female die in the frame, a head, a female die in the head, means for holding the handle in the face of the head, means for guiding the wire in the face of the head, means for severing the wire, a block, dies in the block with which the ends of the wire engage to form the hook, and means for operating the head and block.

5. The combination of a frame, means for bending the wire to form the body of the handle, a block, dies in the block, an arm adapted to cross the face of each die, means for advancing the block to force the ends of the handle into the dies in the block and around under the arms to form the hooks on the handle.

6. In a device of the character described, a frame, provided with a recess and groove in the recess forming a die, a head provided with a groove forminga die, lips in the face of the head adapted to engage and hold the body of the handle, means for operating the lips to grasp the handle, and means for operating th head.

7. The combination of a frame, a device for forming the body of the handle, a block, dies within the block, a spring-actuated arm adapted to cross each die in the block, means for operating the block to force the ends of the handleinto the die and beneath the arm to form the hooks of the handle, and means for releasing the hooks from engagements with the arms.

8. In a device of the character described, a frame, a mechanismfor forming the body of the handle, a block provided with dies for forming the hooks of the handle, and means for operating the same consisting of a frame provided with a groove, a cam adapted to be rotated in the frame, connection between the frame and forming mechanism, connection between the cam and block, and means for rotating the cam to operate the frame and the forming mechanism.

9. In a machine of the character described, a frame, dies for forming the body of the handle, dies for forming the hooks of the handle consisting of bar 28 provided with socket therein and a spring-actuated arm 32, means for severing the handle, a cam connected with ,the dies, and means for operating said cam.

10. In a machine of the character described, a frame, a die for bending the body of the handle, a head, a die in the head adapted to engage the die in the frame, lips in the head for holding the handle in the head, a spring-actuated guide for guiding and holding the handle in the die in the head before the lips shall have engaged the handle, and means for operating the head to bring the two dies into an engagement to form the body of the handle.

11. In a machine of the character described,

a frame, a recess within the frame, a female die in the recess, a head, a female die in the head, a block, two dies in the block, a springactuated arm projecting through the face of the dies in the block, an arm for actuating the severing-knife, an arm for operating the feed, a cam adapted to rotate in a frame for operating the head, the block, the severing device and an arm for operating a feeding device, and means for operating the cam.

12. In a machine of the character described, a head for forming the body of the handle, a block for forming the hooks of the handle, a supplemental frame, a cam adapted to rotate in said frame, connection between the frame and the head, connection between the cam and the block, and means for rotating the cam to first advance the head then the block, and to first retreat the block then the head after the handle is formed.

13. In a machine of the character described, a main frame provided with a die in one end, a head provided with a die for forming with the die in the frame the body of the handle, a block provided with dies for forming the hooks of the handle, a supplemental frame adapted to be reeiprocated in the main frame, a cam adapted to rotate in said supplemental frame, connection between the supplemental frame and the head, connection between the cam and the block, and means for rotating the cam to reciprocate the head and the block.

1a. In a machine of the character described, a main frame provided with a die, a head provided with a die for formingwith the die in the frame the body of the handle, a block provided with dies for forming the hooks of the handle, a cam, means connected with said cam for operating the head and block, a cutter for severing the wire, and means connected with said cam for operating the cutter.

15. In a device of the character described, a main frame provided with an opening therethrough through which the wire is fed into the machine, a cutter-plate pivoted to the frame and adapted to be forced past the opening in the frame to sever the wire, a cam, connection between the cam and the cutter-plate, means for rotating the cam to operate the cutter to sever the wire, ahead provided with a die and lips in the head for holding the wire while it is severed.

16. In a machine of the character described, a main frame, a die in the frame, a head for forming the body of the handle, a die in the head, a block, dies in the block for forming the hooks, supplemental frame provided with a groove, connection between said supplemental frame and the head, a cam adapted to be rotated in the groove in the supplemental frame, connection between the cam and the block, a cutter-for severing the wire, connection between the cutter and the cam, and means attached to the cam for operating the cutter, the block and the head not only to cut off the wire, but to form the body and the hooks and complete the handle at one revolution of the cam.

17. A machine for the manufacture of handles, consisting of a main frame provided with a die in the head-plate, a head provided with a die, means for holding the wire in the die in the head, a block provided with dies for forming the hooks of the handle, a cutter pivoted to the head-plate near an opening therein through which the wire is fed to the cutter, a supplemental frame, a cam adapted to be rotated in the supplemental frame, connection between the cam and the cutter and the cam and the block, connection between the supplemental frame and the head, and means connected with the cam for operating the head the cutter and the block.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL L. EUSTICE. 

